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Folklore is an action adventure game with also role-playing elements developed by Game Republic and published by SCEI, released in 2007 for PlayStation 3. This is a single-player game.
Folklore received mixed reviews from the gaming press; it was praised for its excellent and beautiful presentation, as well as extremely good soundtrack and its humoristic characters and storyline but it was also criticized for its bland gameplay.
This game takes place in present day and revolves around the two playable characters who are a young blonde woman named Ellen, and a journalist Keats, working for a journalist from an occult magazine (Unknown Realms).
At the beginning of the game Ellen comes to the sea-side village of Doolin (Ireland), because of a letter from her supposedly dead mother. At the same time Keats receives a phone call from a woman in distress asking him to call in Doolin.
Soon he and Ellen find themselves in a murder mystery, it appears that they can find the answers only in the Netherworld (the Land of the Dead), a land that can only be accessed from one place in the world, Doolin.
To solve the crime and reveal Ellen s forgotten past, they will be obliged to venture in the Netherworld as travelers where Fairies and Folks (mythological creatures) alike await them.
Along the way they will meet many different characters who will help out both of them in their quest. Throughout the game, you will learn about the chaos the Netherworld was put into by a previous Netherworld traveler.
The eventual goal is to reach the core of the Netherworld and fix it. The game takes two different perspectives in the story that shows the different views and opinions of many different characters.
There are seven unique realms, each farther from the Earth than the one before. Ellen and Keats travel through each realm separately. And each realm represents a certain aspect of the human mind. In addition to this each realm has their own Folks to battle against and absorb them during combats to increase your characters powers.
You can play either as Keats or Ellen; depending on your choice the gameplay will differ. Decisions made in one story-line will directly impact the path of the other, though this only appears later in the story.
One of the main differences is that Ellen fully materializes the Folks she uses, meaning that they can be used as a defense.
Keats, however, only materializes either a bodypart or a transparent body of it. Another gameplay element is that Ellen s magic bar regenerates slowly, while Keats bar instantly fills after not using his abilities for a while.
